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Twitter faces backlash over handling of anti-Semitic posts

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By DANICA KIRKA

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the value of free speech rights

Freedom of speech should allow speech encouraging hatred, inciting violence, and spreading lies?

No.

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Why media calls post against Jewish as anti semitic? A semite can also be a Muslim who speaks Arab. Does nobody actually check it out before writing stuff?

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I saw some of the tweets and they were vile. Twitter did nothing for several hours and, eventually, after a lot of complaints, removed some, but most were hate filled, anti Semitic inaccurate tropes which were not removed. Some forms of abuse are allowed on Twitter, some are not.

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Red Necks Are the KKK and Jewish people are the Law… Work that out.”

Oh my ...

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Twitter Japan does nothing about Japanese racists' accounts, on the other hand, they often locked or suspended accounts of people who criticize discrimination or Abe Govt.

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@Tommy Eddy Kookabura

Why media calls post against Jewish as anti semitic? A semite can also be a Muslim who speaks Arab.

That doesn't mean it's inaccurate to describe hate speech against Jewish people as anti-Semitic, as they are in fact Semites.

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"Anti-Semitism. Despicable. How on earth did Twitter let this slide for so long?"

My beef with this statement is based on the value of free speech rights. Voltaire is attributed the quote "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."  Whether or not Voltaire's biographer was accurate or not, that philosophy is the underpinning of western democracy. Expecting social media to censor other people's speech because a majority finds the thoughts express to be objectionable, regardless of the reason, is censorship and is utterly anti-ethical to democracy. Freedom of the press is enshrined in the US Constitution. Today social media is equivalent to the written press of the past. Censoring social media is abhorrent to anyone who values free speech and freedom of expression. Keep in mind in a decade or two your speech, your most cherished ideas might be considered obnoxious to a future majority and thus censored. No, free speech must be the goal. If you don't like what somebody said, come up with a good counter argument. That is how the competition of ideas is supposed to work.

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Anti-Semitism. Despicable. How on earth did Twitter let this slide for so long?

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